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Anyone looked at putting a dot of 309 filler metal on the bottoms of nipples with big holes and then redrilling the tiny holes?
 
I got a gun the other day that had the nipple drilled out quite a bit, my take is a little drilling is OK, if the blowback cocks your hammer, it is definitely time for a new nipple. I was shooting light charges in the gun but changed the nipple out with a new one anyway.
 
Nipples are too cheap for me to not just put a new one on.Personally I want anything I have any control over to be as consistant as possible.Probably does not matter but need all the help I can get to keep everything the same when shooting.
 
With rifles that are made for heavy bullets, yeah, it would make a lot of sense to tighten up the holes.
Or with revolvers.
 
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